E' nell'interesse della classe lavoratrice che l'occupazione imperialista in Afghanistan venga sconfitta. Questo non avverrà ad opera dei Talebani (cosa che, dovesse accadere, creerebbe tuttavia i suoi problemi), ma col ritiro dell'appoggio alla guerra da parte delle classi lavoratrici dei paesi occupanti e con la diffusione di una aperta opposizione alla guerra. [English] read full story / add a comment

It is in the interests of the working class for the imperialist occupation of Afghanistan to be defeated. This will not be achieved by the Taliban (and, indeed, would create its own problems if it was), but by the withdrawal of support for the war by the working class of the occupying countries and the spread of open opposition. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Il 13 marzo 2008, il parlamento del Canada votò il prolungamento della sua “missione” militare in Afghanistan fino al luglio  2011. La mozione presentata dal governo conservatore di minoranza venne votata anche dall’opposizione liberale. I guerrafondai avevano correttamente calcolato che se si fosse stabilita una data per il ritiro delle truppe, si sarebbe indebolita l’opposizione alla guerra che stava montando nell’opinione pubblica e si sarebbe guadagnato tempo per una partecipazione continuativa del Canada. Da allora, la situazione politica e militare in Afghanistan non ha fatto che peggiorare per le forze di occupazione ed i dirigenti politici stanno ora facendo balenare proposte per prorogare la data del ritiro per una missione militare che già costituisce una grave violazione della sovranità nazionale e dei diritti umani del popolo afgano. [English] read full story / add a comment

Il movimento comunista-anarchico in Transcaucasia nel 1904 - articolo da www.alasbarricadas.org. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

On March 13, 2008, Canada's Parliament voted to extend the country's military “mission” in Afghanistan to July 2011. The motion by the minority Conservative government was supported by the opposition Liberals. The warmakers correctly estimated that fixing an exit date would deflect mounting opposition to the war among the Canadian public and buy time for Canada's continued participation. Since then, the political and military situation in Afghanistan has continued to deteriorate for the occupying forces, and leading politicians are now floating proposals to extend Canada's claimed exit date for a military mission that already constitutes a gross violation of the national sovereignty and human rights of the Afghan people. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

El movimiento anarco-comunista en Transcaucasia en 1904 -artículo recibido vía www.alasbarricadas.org read full story / add a comment

El lingüista y politólogo libertario Noam Chomsky opina sobre el curso de la guerra imperialista en Afganistán y sus similitudes con la intervención en Vietnam. read full story / add a comment

RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan - Asociación de las Mujeres Revolucionarias de Afganistán) es una agrupación clandestina que promueve la defensa de los derechos humanos en un Afganistán dividido entre un gobierno débil y fundamentalista auspiciado por las armas de las potencias occidentales y los talibanes. Con su compromiso por un movimiento popular y democrático, constituido sobre la educación de las mujeres afganas, básicamente analfabetas, RAWA se ha convertido en objetivo a batir para ambos contendientes.

Buscando denunciar la perniciosa invasión y conseguir apoyo y solidaridad de colectivos sociales españoles, una activista de RAWA ha llevado a cabo una gira de charlas por todo el estado español. Se trata de Mariam Rawi (nombre ficticio), una joven periodista y profesora que vive a caballo entre Afganistán y los campos de refugiados de Pakistán. A su paso por Logroño hemos podido conversar brevemente con ella. read full story / add a comment

Chi sceglie le vittime è un complice, chi non è con loro è contro di loro. E come tale va colpito. Con le menzogne, con le pallottole, che importa? Va ridotto al silenzio. read full story / add a comment

This article was published in Avtonom #30 in December 2008. The whole issue is available in PDF format here: http://www.avtonom.org/node/1821. This English translation was originally published in Abolishing the Borders from Below #35. read full story / add a comment

AFRIN, Syrian Kurdistan,— According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, Mohammed Musto Rashid from Mabatli, Afrin, died as a result of torture in Aleppo Central prison. He had been in detention for nearly four months, and had been subjected to severe torture, and was taken to hospital in Allepo where he stayed for four days. He was then sent back to prison and his death was announced on 19 January 2010. The reason for his arrest and detention is not known, nor if this was in connection with any political activity.
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The revolution in Iran is also a women's revolution. Women are playing a key role in attempts to cast off the feudal regime of the Islamic Republic. read full story / add a comment

La Compagnie de l’Acier d’Ispahan (Isfahan Steel Company, ISC) est une des plus grande entreprise industrielle d’Iran. Pourtant, malgré de nombreux efforts petits et grands des travailleurs pendant des années pour améliorer leurs conditions de travail, ils ont été fortement privés du droit d’avoir une organisation dirigée par les travailleurs eux-mêmes pour défendre leurs droits et leurs justes revendications.

Aussi, face à un avenir incertain et à la dégradation générale des conditions de travail et compte-tenu du poids écrasant de la crise économique sur les épaules des travailleurs, nous, groupe d’ouvrier d’ISC, avons décidé de former le « Conseil Ad Hoc des Ouvriers de l’Acier d’Ispahan », dont la mission est d’unifier les rangs ouvriers et de défendre leurs droits.

De toute évidence, comme le Conseil a commencé son travail dans les conditions de l’activité clandestine et que ses membres, par nécessité, n’ont pas été publiquement élus par les travailleurs, il a décidé de se qualifier lui-même d’Ad Hoc. Cependant, le Conseil s’engage à mettre en place une élection libre et ouverte impliquant l’ensemble des salarié dès que les conditions permettront une activité au grand jour. Jusqu’à ce jour, le Conseil, en tant que seul représentant existant des travailleurs d’ISC, ne ménagera pas ses efforts pour défendre les droits de chacun et de tous les travailleurs, tout en informant tout le monde de ses décisions avec des communiqués périodiques. read full story / add a comment

The Isfahan Steel Company (ISC) has been one of the largest industrial enterprises in all Iran. Nevertheless, despite many small and large efforts by workers throughout the years to improve their working condition, they have been strenuously deprived of the right to have a workers-led organization of their own to defend their rights and just demands.

In this connection, faced with an uncertain future and generally worsening conditions, and mindful of the crushing weight of the economic crisis on the workers’ shoulders, we, a group of ISC workers, have decided to form the “Ad Hoc Council of the Isfahan Steel Workers”,whose mission it is to unify the workers’ ranks and defend their rights.

Clearly, since the Council has commenced its work under conditions of underground activity and its members are by necessity not openly elected by the rank and file, it has decided to qualify itself as ad hoc. However, the Council pledges to have an open and free election encompassing the entire labor force the moment conditions allow for open activity. Up until that day, the Council, as the only existing representative of the ISC labor, will spare no effort to defend each and every worker’s right, while keeping everyone informed of its deliberations with periodic statements. read full story / add a comment

Premiato all'ultimo festival del cinema di Cannes, nella categoria Un certo sguardo, il film "Gatti persiani" è il quinto film del regista iraniano di origine kurda Bahman Ghobadi, rivelatosi nel 2000 con "Il tempo dei cavalli ubriachi". "Gatti persiani" racconta il percorso di 2 giovani musicisti che cercano di organizzare un concerto a Teheran per finanziare l'acquisto di passaporti falsi allo scopo di emigrare a Londra. read full story / add a comment

Iranian teacher trade unionist and Kurdish activist Farzad Kamangar is facing the threat of imminent execution, and the TUC has joined the campaign led by international teacher union organisation Education International (EI), and teacher trade unions in Britain and around the world, to call on the Iranian authorities to lift that threat and commute his death sentence. Please add your name to the email protest. read full story / add a comment

The revolution that has started since June 2009 is the outburst of the repressed anger of the people against the criminal Islamic regime of Iran. This is a revolution for liberation from a corrupt system, for smashing a machine of murder, plunder, ignorance and lies which has been wrecking the lives of the people for thirty years. This revolution will not stop until it has crushed the entire inhuman system in power. read full story / add a comment

The anti-war movement, if it is to have a chance at success, must encourage the growing resistance in the lower ranks of capitalism’s armed forces. The rank-and-file soldiers of capitalist empire, recruited from the working class, could turn against the brass to become a true workers' army dedicated to fighting the real enemy at home: the ruling class of capitalists, politicians and the middle managers who do their bidding. read full story / add a comment

This is a talk and discussion on Iran hosted by Miami Autonomy and Solidarity. read full story / add a comment

Kurdish community in Ireland goes on a protest on Wednesday 18 November at 14.00 outside of Iranian Embassy to condemn the execution of Ihsan Fattahina and to stop execution of another 11 Kurdish human right activists including Sherko Moarefi. read full story / add a comment